Posted on 05/17/2012 12:59:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ABC-TV news reported this week that George Zimmerman had a broken nose, two black eyes and lacerations on the back of his head the day after his fatal confrontation with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. ABC said it had obtained a medical report that documents Zimmerman's injuries. The injuries could back up Zimmerman's claim that he was defending himself from an attack by Trayvon when he pulled the trigger. Florida's stand your ground law allows people who feel threatened by death or serious injury to respond with deadly force....
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Zimmerman should get a full ride scholarship to Duke University.
It isn't "stand your ground" when a thug is bashing your head into the ground; it is ordinary self-defense.
However, it is a hate crime to defend yourself against an attack by one of Eric Holder's people.
If I was Zimmerman’s attorney, I’d make bloody sure that I delayed this case as long as I can in hopes that it’s prolonged until January 20, 2013. Even a “NOT GUILTY” by his jurors results in more charges by the most vile, disgusting filth in the Obama administration (I’d go as far as to say worse than Obama himself), Eric Holder.
Shame on the prosecutors. They knew about ALL this evidence BEFORE.
The headline is a duhh
AND OBAMA WILL TELL EVERYONE TO SHUT UP....JUST LIKE HE TOLD Reverend Wright. Probably cost Obama a few bucks (out of his campaign funds) ....but what's new.
“Florida’s stand your ground law allows people who feel threatened by death or serious injury to respond with deadly force...”
Stand Your Ground, obviously, and is part of this story because people want to kill it. But as I’ve said before, Simmerman wouldn’t need to assert it. If Martin was on top of him as he’s said, a witness appears to corroborate, and the medical report apparently backs up, regular-old self-defense applies. You can’t very well retreat if someone’s pinning you down.
“The headline is a duhh”
I don’t know. It’s not like there was any evidence of 2nd degree murder before, and there was made public evidence of his injuries in the form a picture of the back of his head. This being a “game changer” in the courtroom in your head is a “duh.” But whether it will be for practical purposes, the DA, the MSM, the rabble-rousers, and the general political climate being what it is is up in the air.
I’d tend to think it’d change momentum and put Zimmerman’s would-be lynchers on the defensive. Then again, I’d tend to believe the evidence and lackthereof beforehand would’ve put them on the defensive, too. So what do I know?
It would be interesting to know whether the Florida Governor could issue Z a pardon at some point...Holder wouold take it in the shorts!
No.
I PRAY Zimmerman sues each and every person who incited violence, racism or riots against him!!!
This is about stirring things up to gain votes. What actually happened has never made any difference to those doing the stirring.
In fact, if they can stir up more controversy with an acquittal, I am certain that is what zero and his brainless friends want to happen.
The chicken crap Florida governor is the one who appointed the special prosecutor.
This was not run by a Grand Jury in the first place because they were afraid they would get a no bill.
I think they were angling on railroading him into a plea. You can see the drill, 10 prosecutors, all on state pay verses a relatively poor defendant with either a court appointed attorney or the public defender. It would be like the lions verses the christians and the lions were undefeated. But alas, an attorney stepped forward and the steam engine of injustice is now on the siding.
The state’s attorney has too much invested here to now drop the case so I guess we move on to the prelim and hopefully the judge does his job and dismisses the charges with prejudice. When that day approaches, go to personal DEFCON 2 because the junior citizens will be whipped up into a frenzy and all hell might break loose.
I hope this does not go to a jury, the trial will be a circus and no way the jurors need that kind of personal grief for doing the right thing: a not guilty verdict.
Governors can’t pardon federal charges.
Gio Benitez @GioBenitez @mattgutmanABC reports Trayvon's autopsy shows he was 5'11, 160 lbs, and had THC in system (he had been suspended for pot a few days before)
Gio Benitez @GioBenitez BREAKING: Discovery Files in the State's case against George Zimmerman to be released today after 5 p.m.
Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the truth.....
The same chicken crap governor? The one who boldly rebuffed the Tampa mayor who wanted to ban guns downtown during the RNC? The one who pushed for welfare and state worker drug tests (activist judges shot it down, but he tried). The one who rebuffed the waste of money high speed rail from Tampa to Orlando? I’d say he’s taken many politically unpopular, but conservative, opinions. He’s not perfect; no one is.
Politically, he had to appoint a special prosecutor. Frankly, I’m glad he did - evidence is coming out that may not have had the charges been dropped. I want a RESOUNDING Zimmerman acquittal (or the charges dropped). Notice how the media has gone cold on this story now that their storyline isn’t playing out?
Most interesting to me is the lack of injury to Zimmerman’s knuckles.
Indicates he never landed a blow.
(The black, in contast, had injuries to his knuckles, indicating he was the attacker.)
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